"If it's possible, it tastes worse cold."*shudder*Now that is a truly frightening thought!

heh ... maybe you should investigate; maybe that combination of herbs can be used, I dunno, for another "It's gotta be good for ya, cuz it tastes aweful!" cold remedy?

Bitters ... w/o hops ... hmmmm.

But you've lost me ... that's the end of the pool I didn't more than spash around in.Mind I did get into making apple-cider in a big way ... imagine trees out in the highlands of Cape Breton that are soooooooo clean and natural that I made cider w/o adding yeast ... just didn't wash the fruit ... quartered them, tossed them in *out the side of a hill* spring water, let them set 2 weeks, then strained the big chunks out and added sugar, then *at least* one more week and added spices (cinammon, basically), then *at least* one more week and into the bottles. Yummmm!